Prisma app arrives on Android, but beware of fakes

You must have seen your iPhone friends sharing 'artistic', painting-like photos on Facebook and Instagram. Don't feel left behind as the app responsible for the social media renaissance is now available for Android smartphones too.

Prisma is not exactly a photo-editing tool, but more of an app with filters on steroids. The days when filters played with light and contrast are passe. Prisma's filters make all other apps feel lame, including Instagram. The app lets you turn your beach photo into a beach painting.

Update: According to a report by Android Central, after receiving complaints about no save option in the app, the company has released an update. Now you can find a save button next to the Instagram share button. This will save you artwork in a folder named Prisma in your phone's gallery. The company said it has also fixed a few bugs in its first update.

The Russian-made app uses "unique combination of neural networks and artificial intelligence" to tweak the photos with 36 different filters.

The interesting thing about this app is that the same filter may appear different for different photos. This happens due to the machine learning algorithms at work. So every time you click a photo the cloud AI analyses it, recognises different objects in the photo, and "prisms" it accordingly.

Some of these are based on art styles and famous artworks of masters like Munk, Picasso, and Van Gogh. Check out these samples:

You can take a picture, select one from your gallery, or from Google Photos to turn it into an artwork. Since the whole process runs on Prisma's remote servers, it might feel slow at times due to millions of users trying to turn their photos into a painting.

The Prisma app topped the charts on Apple Store till Pokemon Go came along. However, the artwork app is still going strong. According to its makers, the app has 'prismed' over 400 million photos so far. The app has been downloaded over 10.6 million times on iOS alone.

The app was launched just yesterday on Android, however, there are other apps that go by similar names on Google Play Store. It's not advisable to download any of those, they might turn out to be malware.

In the coming weeks, Prisma is expected to add video support feature. The app, for now, also lags at times and lacks a few basic features like locally saving a photo. The coming versions are expected to sort these issues out. You can download the app from here.

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